James Place Hotwells, Bristol, City of

6 addresses across 2 postcodes (BS8), about 20 m long. USRN 4560061.

  • Sales: 9 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £526,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (D: 5).
  • Flood: 3 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Bristol, City of costs £2,714 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Clifton Down, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Durdham Down and Clifton Down, is about 110 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 76 to 77 m above sea level.
  • Noise: None of its addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pembroke Road Surgery, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 400 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 28% of households owned their home and 60% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 177 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20221£526,000£526,000£526,000
20172£470,000£450,000£490,000
20121£330,000£330,000£330,000
20061£382,500£382,500£382,500
19991£168,500£168,500£168,500
19972£114,000£109,000£119,000
19961£118,500£118,500£118,500
Most recent sales (9)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Nov 20223 BS8 4JETerraced£526,000
28 Jun 20173 BS8 4JETerraced£450,000
19 Apr 20176 BS8 4JETerraced£490,000
3 Feb 20122 BS8 4JETerraced£330,000
8 Nov 20062 BS8 4JETerraced£382,500
22 Oct 19992 BS8 4JETerraced£168,500
19 Sep 19973 BS8 4JETerraced£119,000
14 Feb 19976 BS8 4JETerraced£109,000
16 Sep 19962 BS8 4JETerraced£118,500

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2019 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5). Built: before 1900 (5). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Bristol, City of in 2026-27: Band D £2,714 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,809£2,111£2,412£2,714£3,317£3,920£4,523£5,427

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (29% of about 900 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Clifton (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 3.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Clifton Ward (1999 ward boundary).
  • Tree preservation orders: 2 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
BS8 4JEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
BS8 4JBnot in 2 or 3 3 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 6 addresses are between 76 m and 77 m above sea level (77 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BS8 4JB100%100%100%0%
BS8 4JE100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsClifton Down 818,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.8 miles)
Redland 230,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Bedminster 141,000 journeys in 2024–252.6 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 21 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Observatory Road Clifton150 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Bristol2 km (1.3 miles)
Ferry terminalPumphouse Ferry Landing Hotwells900 m (0.6 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Co Wheels Parking Bay470 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bridge Road, Leigh Woods GeniePoint740 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBristol Airport BRS10.5 km (6.5 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pembroke Road Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clifton Village Pharmacy180 m
NHS dentists14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Dental Surgery70 m
HospitalBft Southmead The Bristol Nuffield Hospital470 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationRedland Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesWaitrose Clifton, 85 Queens Road Cashzone1 km (0.6 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Durdham Down and Clifton Down 132 ha110 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,350 m²230 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 62 ha950 m (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsWhite City Allotments 1.4 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 134 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Numbers 1 to 13 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, a listed building (Grade II*), 40 m. 513 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade I and 65 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Numbers 1 to 13 and Attached Front Basement Area RailingsListed building, Grade II*40 m
The Clifton ClubListed building, Grade II*100 m east
32-44 Caledonia Place and attached front basement area cast-iron railingsListed building, Grade II*100 m south-east
Numbers 1 to 31 and Attached Front Basement Area RailingsListed building, Grade II*140 m south
Clifton Down camp, CliftonScheduled monument350 m north-west
Goldney HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Bet tohorah at Jacob's Wells RoadScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) east
Stokeleigh Camp: a promontory fort in Leigh WoodsScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Bristol University Botanic Gardens and Rayne ThatchRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Observatory HillHill310 m north-west
Nightingale ValleyValley870 m (0.5 miles) west
Brandon HillHill1 km (0.7 miles) east
Rownham PlantationWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-west
New CutLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Horseshoe PointWetland4.6 km (2.9 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.2205
Particles (PM10)10.04015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
Under 5566

None of the street's 6 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic or railways.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Bristol, City of: see them on the Bristol, City of page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–11440 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Hotwells Primary SchoolPrimary4–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
City of Bristol College16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Ashton Gate Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ss Peter and Paul RC Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Johns Church of England Primary School, CliftonPrimary5–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (May 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Bristol Cathedral Choir School Church of EnglandSecondary11–181.5 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cathedral Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Willow Park CofE Primary School Church of England/United Reformed ChurchPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Inadequate (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Cotham SchoolSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Ashton Park SchoolSecondary11–181.8 km (1.1 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Southville Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Emperor Court BS8 4JBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen10 m5 Very good12 Nov 2024
Milk Bun Deli BS8 4JGTakeaway/sandwich shop30 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Milk Bun BS8 4JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
The Mall BS8 4JGPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Cote Brasserie BS8 4JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
Burra BS8 4JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good3 Apr 2025
Patrick's Kitchen BS8 4JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 mAwaiting inspection
Doghouse BS8 4JHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good20 Mar 2025
Royal Oak BS8 4JGPub/bar/nightclub70 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
The Brunel Wine Bar BS8 4DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
22 Clifton BS8 4DSRetailers - other70 m5 Very good18 Mar 2026
The Clifton Club Co Ltd BS8 4DSOther catering premises70 m5 Very good2 Jun 2026
The Clifton Sausage BS8 4JARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Salcombe Dairy BS8 4DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good8 Oct 2026
CINO’S BS8 4JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good20 Feb 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

177 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences41
Anti-social behaviour31
Shoplifting30
Vehicle crime23
Burglary14
Other theft12
Criminal damage and arson10
Public order10
Robbery4
Theft from the person1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Supermarket (39); On or near Boyce'S Avenue (31); On or near Westfield Place (22); On or near Sion Lane (9); On or near The Mall (8).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 395 residents in 173 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age2640
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)28%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented72%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work60%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)46%32%
Travel to work by car or van21%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle27%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)85%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)60%34%
No qualifications3%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Gloucester Street · Sion Place · The Mall · B3129 · B3129 · Sion Hill · Westfield Place · West Mall · Waterloo Street · Caledonia Place · Portland Street · Rodney Place

All the streets in BS8 and across Bristol, City of.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.